Halloween Countdown. Case 6: The Alpine Beast

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox. Countdown with Danny, and then get ready for some very special Halloween surprises!

Written and presented by Danny Robins Assistant producer and researcher: Lara Monahan Researcher: Nancy Bottomley Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Production manager: Tam Reynolds Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, today we're going to leave behind ghosts and delve into the realms of
0:10.8	cryptozoology, the study of beasts that may or may not exist.
0:14.7	We've got a very strange story from Eleanor.
0:17.0	She says, dear Danny, my husband and I and our friend went on holiday to the French Alps. We were walking along a U-shaped mountain ridge over a valley.
0:26.0	My husband, I stopped as there was a waterfall on the other side with only a long water pipe over it.
0:31.0	But our friend was feeling brave and decided to walk across. We were able to watch him
0:35.4	from the other side to check he cross safely. As soon as he made it across, we saw something
0:41.2	incredibly frightening. A huge black creature came out of the greenery
0:45.7	and walked behind him across this pipe, disappearing back into the greenery once it had
0:50.3	crossed. It was on all fours, pitch black in color, incredibly slender and about
0:55.0	the height of a horse. My husband is a natural historian and couldn't compare it to any animal
0:59.9	that exists. This was before we had smartphones and our friend couldn't hear us
1:03.5	shouting after him, but when we reunited, he claimed he hadn't heard or seen anything.
1:09.0	But I can still see that huge skinny wolf-like creature as clear as anything.
1:15.0	Oh M bloody G Eleanor what did she see any else?
1:20.0	Email me your thoughts uncanny at BBC.kow. UK I'll be back tomorrow with a brand new case. So.

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